Yoshida & Co., a Japan-based bag company, has recently adopted INVISTA's CORDURA brand fabric for three bags in the PORTER line that appeal to anyone from the business professional to the world traveler, and even to the on-the-go parent. The PORTER MUSETTE, PORTER DILL and PORTER FIT bags are each constructed with durable CORDURA brand fabric making for a stylish yet practical bag. "With 77 years in the bag industry, Yoshida & Co. has continued to actively challenge new designs by incorporating high-end performance and wide ranging design appeal," ...

McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds' You've been Sentenced! word game recently was named to the Top 10 Educational Games list for 2012 by DGA. This is the 23rd national honor for the game in the toy and game world, as well as in the education sector. The You've been Sentenced! word game uses pentagon-shaped cards with conjugations of funny words, famous names, and familiar places. Each player uses his or her hand of 10 cards to build a grammatically correct sentence, racing the other players while also trying to score the most points per round. Sentences also have to ...

Randy Lee Bumgarner, an attorney located in Oklahoma City, is pleased to announce his recognition by the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings with a "Distinguished" rating, a widely respected achievement within the legal industry. The recent accomplishment was the result of evaluations given by other members of the bar and the judiciary. "I'm honored to be recognized by my fellow attorneys and peers within the legal community," said Bumgarner, whose practice consists of divorce, family law, child custody cases, DHS matters, bankruptcy and criminal ...

The Garner Chamber of Commerce has announced the winners for the third annual Summit Awards Honoring the Best in Business. The Summit Awards were presented on Sept. 27 at the Chamber's Annual Meeting and Banquet at the Grand Marquise Ballroom, with Triangle Business Journal's Cecily Durrett serving as emcee of the awards presentation. Following the initial nominations phase, judging was conducted by an out-of-state panel of business leaders. Nineteen finalists were named for the seven awards, with the following winners announced during the awards presentation that concluded ...

Private Residence Collection (PRC) has announced the availability of its incentivized vacation club program, including the vital tools needed for timeshare and fractional resort professionals to use to increase sales in today's competitive vacation marketplace. Positioned as a perfect complement to timeshare ownership, PRC provides a value-added collection of products and services designed to increase the value of a timeshare resort offering to deliver significant increases in timeshare membership sales. The club provides the resort and its customers with everything ...

Spense is an easy, quick, and simple way to keep a journal of your day-to-day spending. Set a spending target and a repeat cycle, and each transaction you enter is immediately deducted from your balance. Available on the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch, this app is free to download. To share a spending journal with multiple users, a subscription for $1.99 per month for unlimited users is available. This app is not complicated. It won't link to your bank accounts or allow you to pay your bills. It is a simple, easy way to keep up with your daily spending without ...

Integrated Intelligence (www.i2trustedadvisors.com), a Raleigh-based consulting firm that advises and equips CEOs and senior leaders with the leadership, passion and tools to optimize the integration of human capital and business intelligence, has announced the firm's keynote lunch sponsorship of the 2012 N.C. CEO Forum: Leading Through Change, on Thursday, Oct. 11 at Northridge Country Club, located at 6612 Falls of Neuse Road. The invitation-only event is for executives, government and nonprofit leaders dedicated to gaining a competitive edge and to building North Carolina's ...

In response to customers¡¯ requests, payroll tax software provider halfpricesoft.com launched the new productivity-boosting solution, ezACH Direct Deposit software, for small businesses and accountants. Users can now NACHA ACH files for electronic fund transfers easily and quickly In house. Designed with simplicity in mind, ezACH deposit software comes with easy-to-use graphic user-interface and Windows menus. It leads users step-by-step through adding vendor, adding transactions and generating ACH file. ezAch Deposit can create direct deposit file for payroll, government ...

Mims Distributing Company (http://www.mimsdist.com), a beer distributor that services a nine-county area in and around the Triangle, has announced that it will serve as a Gold Hope Sponsor for the 24th annual Thad and Alice Eure Walk for Hope to be held Sunday, Oct. 14 at the Angus Barn on U.S. Highway 70. The event, which includes a 5K and 10K run that starts at 8 a.m. and a walk that starts at 10 a.m., raises money and community awareness for the research and treatment of mental illness being overseen by the Foundation of Hope. The Foundation of Hope provides financial ...

Golden Shovel Agency continues their busy year of conferences with a trip to Montana for the Montana Economic Development Association (MEDA) Fall Economic Development Conference. This year's conference is entitled "Collaborative Leadership for Montana: Connecting Economic Opportunities for a Viable Future". This year, Golden Shovel Agency's Vice President of Business Development, Aaron Brossoit, and Director of Sales, Matt Marshall, will be speaking on how to improve economic development online. Online communications has been rapidly changing the way economic ...

The Connecticut Real Estate Investors Association, or CT REIA, in association with Zack Childress is announcing its October 2012 monthly meeting. This event will take place on from 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm on October 15, 2012. This event will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel located at 100 Berlin Road in Cromwell, CT. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early for networking opportunities. Zack Childress is a real estate wholesaling and business automation expert. He has devised a system on automating the real estate marketing process. He has also discovered six ways to ...

Forcura , a leading healthcare software solution provider enabling homecare companies the ability to increase referrals, streamline their manual paper process, and improve document turnaround time announced the addition of PRN Homecare, located in Melbourne, Florida, to their rapidly growing list of clients. PRN Homecare, Inc. is a nurse owned; nurse operated home health agency with over 75 years experience in home health care and serves all of Brevard County. The constant faxing, phone follow ups and administrative resources invested in tracking documentation with physician ...

Steve Parrott, president of Wake Education Partnership (http://www.wakeedpartnership.org/), has announced the 2012 Education Summit will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 30 from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Embassy Suites Raleigh-Durham/Research Triangle located at 201 Harrison Oaks Blvd. in Cary, N.C. This year's summit, moderated by WRAL reporter and anchor Gerald Owens, focuses on the new Common Core State Standards now being used in Wake County's classrooms. The goal of the summit is to inform the local business community about the new national standards, in part through a mock-classroom ...

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) will be showing the National Geographic film America's Wild Spaces: The Appalachian Trail (A.T.) at 10 different theaters across the country between October 25, 2012 and November 15, 2012 as part of their 2012 membership drive. All proceeds will go towards the protection and management of the Trail. This limited engagement is in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the completion of the A.T. Stretching from Maine to Georgia, the A.T. is approximately 2,180 miles in length, making it one of the longest, continuously marked footpaths ...

Harrison College (http://www.harrison.edu), a 110-year-old, nationally accredited institution that offers 40 degree programs in five schools of study , including The Chef's Academy (http://www.thechefsacademy.com), and online, has announced that it will host a Business Forward roundtable featuring Sol Ross, director of business outreach for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3 at its campus, located at 550 E. Washington St. The event will feature a discussion with local business leaders on innovation in healthcare ...

With the arrival of Southwest Airlines at the Dayton International Airport, Westwind Airport Valet has experienced continued growth and expansion. The increase in valet parking and overall business is being met by Westwind Airport Valet with the launching of a brand new website. On September 17, 2012, http://www.WestwindAirportValet.com officially went live. This new website offers several features, all the while maintaining a sense of the "white glove" service Westwind Airport Valet has come to be known for. Customers can now navigate to the new site where ...

Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. (CB&H) (http://www.cbh.com), one of the largest national public accounting and consulting firms headquartered in the Southeast, has announced that Ron Wainwright, CPA tax partner with the firm, will speak at a live phone and web seminar hosted by Strafford Publications on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 1 p.m. EST. Wainwright, along with other panelists, will explain how to manage the difficult calculations and decisions when completing Form 8903 to claim the Section 199 domestic production activities deduction to corporate tax professionals. ...

Staffordshire-based pork and poultry farmers, Packington Free Range, have won The Good Pig Award in the Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards 2012. Selected by the Compassion in World Farming Charity committee, Packington Free Range was honored with the award title in recognition of their commitment to farm animal welfare. Packington Free Range (http://www.packingtonfreerange.co.uk) attended the awards evening which took place on Thursday 27th September and was hosted by cook, food writer and broadcaster Valentine Warner at the Honourable Artillery Company in London. The ...

Spin's innovative Game content to come embedded with geolocation capabilities across PC, Mac and mobile devices. Spin Games' founder and President Kent Young states, "We're excited to be showcasing our new interactive products to the G2E audience. As the North American land-based market looks to move online, we are leveraging all our knowledge of the gaming floor to the online space. Geofencing is critical to success, whether for in-state or in-building gaming and as such we are integrating GeoComply's location solution from the get-go." "Kent and ...

Berland Casting (www.berlandcasting.com) has joined ramp it up entertainment, Frenchway Travel, Respectable Artists, Media Mills, LMG Digital Media, Aria Limo, Fig and Olive, The-UUU, Vuyani Lodge, Union Du Tennis Feminin and many others in the newly formed Production Concierge Services Partnership Network. The PCS Partnership Network is a non-competitive environment where members help each other by sharing contacts/clients and supporting the efforts of international programs like Fashion 4 Development and The Janus Project. Berland Casting has over twenty-five years ...

Today, MetaQuotes Software Corp., the developer of TeamWox enterprise management system, has announced an offer for free TeamWox for government entities. TeamWox is an enterprise management system designed to optimize the efficiency of business management. Companies that use TeamWox (http://www.teamwox.com/en) in their daily routines show better employee performance and reduction in general expenses. This is achieved in a company through automation of work processes and seamless teamwork coordination. The software was originally conceived and developed to meet the ...

On it's 5th birthday, party pioneers THE PLAYGROUND present a night fused with French Electro and Future Bass by assembling some of the hottest producers revolutionising electronic music for one night only at Camden Town's infamous KOKO on Saturday 10th November. With the current explosion of future bass and the continual world dominance of French Electro, THE PLAYGROUND plans to showcase some of main characters currently playing their part to this surge of ground-breaking electronic music. Despite its audacious title, future bass is by no means a new sound but ...

TreSensa is pleased to announce the release of the TreSensa Flash to HTML5 Exporter (TFX). TreSensa's tool allows game developers building HTML5 games to utilize Flash to create their character animations and then easily convert them into HTML5-friendly files that are optimized for mobile game play. "The best thing about TFX is that unlike sprite sheet-based animations that can get prohibitively bloated and slow, TFX exports the component images as well as animation data in a highly efficient format," said TreSensa's CTO, Rakesh Raju. He adds, "This is ...

Titled as 'An Exhibition Celebrating the Work of Sir Colin Hampden-White', the event was a held at the Marylebone Hotel in London and attracted representatives from the political, legal and business sectors who helped raise over GBP3,000 for the rehabilitation of wounded servicemen and women. With guests including the Mayor and Mayoress of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, event co-host the Deputy Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham, Councilor Frances Stainton said "the event was an amazing success". "The figure raised during the event was a ...

She has graced South African and international screens with many commercials over the years and most noticeably caused havoc playing Pam on Isidingo (Highest rated South African daily), as the sex tape extortionist who attempted to blackmail Ace. "It was the first audition I ever had and was convinced my agent was talking rubbish when he said I got the part". But perhaps she is most recognizable from her supporting role on MNETs first season of The Wild, a massive initiative shot entirely on HD, daily in the middle of the South African bush. She left the show ...